Yield not to temptation. A cautionary tale.

So, Lucy and I are out shopping.
And we get to our favorite store and we find this sign in the parking lot:

Really?
How exactly does this work??

It stops me cold. Every. Single. Time.

Seriously.  My synapses are on warp-speed.  Is this really for real?

So we walk a little further.

Ah! The Perimeter!  (ignore it....)

I'd be lying if I told you this wasn't incredibly tempting.  My imagination is so completely captured by the whole locking shopping cart concept that I feel a bit crazed.

However, since I spend most of my shopping hours in this store....

I'd hate to find out the hard way that the whole "secure shopping cart perimeter" thing was not some elaborate corporate joke. 

Still, I can't help it.  I makes me crazy and I'm completely driven to distraction.

Me (staring blindly up at the sign): "I can't remember what we came here for."

Lucy: "Well... I know we didn't come to test the boundaries of the Shopping Cart Perimeter."

Quick review: I'm supposed to be the responsible one here, right?  She knows me so well.....  ;-)